Tag Archive for '2008'

Sweden bound: Video sequences of Cairo, Paris, Berlin and Michigan

I am in Sweden leading a team of student VJs who will produce video reports in Gothenborg at the World Editors Forum. This film catches up with me as I make a short stop in Berlin. Includes scenes from recent stops in Paris, Berlin and Cairo and sets the stage for the World Newspaper Congress and World Editors Forum taking place in Goteborg. There are over 1,800 participants from 130 countries meeting here for the congress.

More videos from the Congress and editors forum

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Trends in news design: SND looks back at 2008

The Society of News Design ends the year with a top 10 list of the big efforts in 2008.

Here’s a wee summary I hacked up in Yahoo! Pipes.

Click on any story link to read the full text on SND’s Update Web site.
I hope they consider publishing this great collection of analysis and review material in print.

Nice job to all the authors!

Pew study illustrates effects of mass layoffs at U.S. newspapers

Types of jobs being trimmed at US newsrooms.

Show me don’t tell me.
Here are some more graphics that dramatically show where the steep cuts and sudden changes in U.S. newspaper are being made to the product.


These are just a few of the illustrations presented in the new Pew Excellence in Journalism report.

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Warsaw: Press Forum

Robb will be speaking in Warsaw on April 4, 2008.

Join 200 chief executives from all Central Europe at PressForum.

More information TK as translations and programme details are made.

Warsaw: Press Forum
Warsaw, Poland
April 04 — 04, 2008